- Lothar Baumgarten
Lothar Baumgarten (born
1944 ) is a German conceptual artist, based in New York andDusseldorf . His work includes installation and film.Life and work
Between 1977 and 1986 Baumgarten visited
Brazil andVenezuela ,John Russell, [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE6DC1630F935A35752C1A96E948260 "ART VIEW; LOTHAR BAUMGARTEN'S DISCREET PROVOCATIONS"] , "The New York Times", November 6, 1988. Page 1.] and these visits resulted in works such as "Terra Incognita", a three-dimensional diagram of the frontier between the two countries.John Russell, [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE6DC1630F935A35752C1A96E948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2 "ART VIEW; LOTHAR BAUMGARTEN'S DISCREET PROVOCATIONS"] , "The New York Times", November 6, 1988. Page 2.]He represented Germany at the 1984
Venice Biennale , where his work consisted of the names Amazonian peoples engraved on a marble floor and filled with resin. A ceiling piece made for theCarnegie Museum of Art in 1988 featured hand-painted letters from theCherokee alphabet. For his 1993 solo exhibition at the Guggenheim he printed the names of indigenous North American peoples on the inner curves of the rotunda. [Margaret Sundell, [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_4_42/ai_111696430 "Lothar Baumgarten: Whitney Museum of American Art - … ambivalence infuses The Origin of the Night"] , "ArtForum", December, 2003.]His works are held in numerous museum collections, including the
Tate . [ [http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=706&page=1 tate.org.uk] ]References
External links
*Edward Leffingwell, [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_11_89/ai_80497074 "Lothar Baumgarten at Marian Goodman - New York"] , "Art in America", November, 2001.
*Sabine B. Vogel, [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_n5_v32/ai_15143708 "Lothar Baumgarten - Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany"] , "ArtForum", January, 1994.
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